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NEPENTHE

 
Pendant over the serene
The tears that form in others


Quill in hand, thought diminished
Scrying through chaos, the words are there
Nocturnal and pure, yet stained
Some would see it as nightmare


But I am ever there
Green pervades the crimson in me
And fever takes its tight hold
So beautifully…


Abhorrent was this morning breath
Still, the night stretched charnel fingers
With snuffed candle sconce abreast
I ponder, on Stygian throne, linger


My lover, deliver me from despair


Abyssal love, oh poisoned heart
With evil that had made a mark
The Satan on the page I’ve torn
In madness were these faces born
Like a fractal self
There are doors behind doors
And each day unchains the next
This insanity that is my norm


Swathed in scorn of taunting beams
In hiraeth for those haunting scenes
Daunted by the crystalline patterns
Oh benign in the zephyr, scattered
Almost forms grandiose delusion
Or mid-diurnal illusion
That I am averted of seclusion
For I am inert, a void profusion


Dredged of suffering and hope
These feeble hands that reach for ropes
Dropped from glory of the stars
That seldom formed through clouds, a scar


Pariah I’ve become, but not alone
For every scar there is a stone
I carry them through many homes
They pierce throughout my flesh and bone
But blood will wash away in time
The nature of the paradigm
A reason for a question asked
A treason left aside at last


I hear them baying from the grave
Around all corners, all detours
Will ever amnesty and faith
Absolve me of cold rain that pours?


Wisdom as a blade I keep
Sorrow of lost youth runs deep
To understand a life astray
As scythe meets skin so far away


As tomorrow kills yesterday…
Written by UbiquitousVoid (. . . . . . . . .)
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